Iowa assistant men’s basketball coach Sherman Dillard tweeted the following Wednesday afternoon: Congrats to our own Devyn Marble and Aaron White for being selected to try out for the 2013 USA Basketball World University Games. So cool! Marble’s reply: Thanks Coach Dillard we’re going to represent to the best of our ability The World University [...]
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We don’t know how many of the six remaining slots are already filled on Iowa’s 2013-2014 nonconference men’s basketball schedule. For this exercise, let’s assume none. I’m assuming the six slots will all be filled by home games, since five of the seven games we know about are away from Iowa City. And of those [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS – He still has an office in the Iowa football operations building. He still watches ever game. He still wanders into film sessions on Sunday mornings to see what went right or wrong. But there’s something that can’t be replicated in former Iowa defensive coordinator Norm Parker’s retirement: the postgame smiles. “The thing [...]
continue »Veteran basketball broadcaster Mac McCausland joins the Mike Hlas Podcast to talk about Iowa’s recent NIT run and what are realistic expectations for the Hawkeyes entering next season. Mac also talks about Iowa State’s program, and the state of college basketball in general. Subscribe to my podcast on iTunes by clicking here. [Audio clip: view [...]
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NEW YORK — Fran McCaffery screamed at his Iowa basketball players during a timeout four minutes into Thursday night’s NIT title game, and yelled at them on the way off the court at halftime. Bob Knight, doing color commentary for ESPN’s telecast of the contest, might have even blanched at McCaffery’s intense anger. [...]
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NEW YORK — The Garden. Anyone who was ever anyone has performed here. Tonight it’s Iowa and Baylor in an NIT championship game. Tomorrow night it’s the Milwaukee Bucks and New York Knicks. A week from tonight, it’s Alicia Keys. Rank them in your order of preference in the comments section. [...]
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NEW YORK — I picked up a copy of the New York Post today because, hey, I had to. What other newspaper would choose the Jay Leno/Jimmy Fallon/NBC story as its cover story, and have a photoshop of Fallon riding in a sidecar of a motorcycle Leno was driving? The Post’s story about tonight’s [...]
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NEW YORK — Devyn Marble is scoring. Iowa’s junior guard has 97 points in his four NIT games. That’s 24.3 points per game. That’s a lot for any four-game stretch. That’s a lot from someone who averaged 12.6 points in Big Ten play. Devyn Marble is passing. Often, and especially down the stretch in [...]
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NEW YORK — Iowa was a win from the NCAA basketball title in 1956, but Bill Russell and the San Francisco Dons got in the way. All-time great Russell had 27 points and 26 rebounds that day in Evanston, Ill., considerably more than Maryland’s 7-foot-1 Alex Len could accumulate against the Hawkeyes Tuesday night in [...]
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Iowa’s Devyn Marble joins the Gazette’s Scott Dochterman and KCRG-TV9′s Scott Saville to talk about the Hawkeyes’ trip to New York City and Tuesday’s NIT semifinal with Maryland.
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